Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171124

Mor more engrained. Just so im clear, we can rule on it, but they cant use it. Yes. Do you second that . I second that. It sounds logical. Okay. Now, lets have some discussion. Commissioner mazzucco . Yes. I just seconded the motion. I tell the public i want to thank everybody for their input. I, too, did receive a lot of information from other organizations, northern station, there was a survey of is 37 people, 95 were in favor. I dont like to put in numbers, how many were in favor, how many were not. As a commissioner, when i first heard it, i had some concerns. Well, wed like to have some more crisis intervention training, wed like to have video. All our officers have cameras. The cameras all have videos. Crisis intervention training, over 900 officers are fully c. I. T. Trained, and by the time this is implemented i think it will be closer to 1300, which is the majority of officers that are out on the streets. This is working, and im very proud of how our officers have changed that dynamic, so those things have happened that lead me to believe this is a wise decision. The department of justice who came to review us has suggested we do this. In conversations with many people from the department offus i s justice, could be believe believe we didnt have this. Our San Francisco sheriffs department, sheriffs deputies have tazers, and theres been no problems. Our city attorneys used to dale with it and been working with it. It bears out that this resulted in fewer injures to both officers and those involved on the other side. I truly hope and pray that we never have to use these devices, deescalation works, but the reality is id like to see these weapons used in the rare circumstance when the only thing left is to use a firearm, so i think thats when its appropriate, so i think watching this department make Great Strides with 5 poipt 01, i think its appropriate that we go forward with this, and go forward continuing to protect the members of this city and the members of the San Francisco Police Department, so i want to thank everybody for their time and effort, and i want to tell you weve made Great Strides. Some of you say theres a delta between the two of you. I ask you to reach out to them, because there is a different dynamic. I do want to clarify, the remarks with the San Francisco bar association. I love the work that julie tran has done, however, the committees remarks doesnt reflect the remarks of the people that ive spoken to, but i do admire the work that youve done, and so for those reasons, i think we should move forward with this program. Commissioner ong hing. Im going to vote no on this motion. The decision to vote no, actually, is quite easy for me, and ill explain why in a minute, but announcing it is actually difficult because in the relatively brief time that ive been on the commission, ive ive come to get to know many members of the Police Department, get to know them and to respect them a great deal in terms of what their goals are and what their approaches are, and and i i think theyre very much a credit to the city, and i i firmly believe that. It would be easy enough to it would be easy enough to vote no for relatively simple things that folks have talked about today and that weve all learned about in the last several months, that theres very credible studies that the adoption of tazers actually increases death rates, that just the cost. Once we got a handle on it, its going to he very high. The financial cost is going to be a very steep investment that, in my opinion, the money could be better spent. Theres deep concerns that i have over the the ineffectiveness of the weapons and the failure rate. Even if its not half failure rate, the failure rates that have been cited even by those supporters have been pretty bad, to be honest with you, and the limitations of when tazers should be used, theyre vast, and so its very easy to be focused on those. The Racial Disparity in the use of the tazers, unfortunately, theres data about our own department ea s racialization of policing in San Francisco, and thats very disturbing. The potential to disrupt and interrupt a deescalation and use of force and time and distance strategies that that the amended motion spoke to. It would be simple enough just to hang my hat on those types of factors to vote against it, but ill be honest with you, the main reason im voting against it is because of the message that it sends to the community. I have a duty as a member of the commissiondpsh a and i the Police Officers in this room to understand why im saying no. Its not meant as disrespect to you, its meant as an exercise of my duty to Public Safety in San Francisco, and a huge part of Public Safety has to do with the trust of the community, and i the community that i worry about the communities that i worry about are those elements of the community that are the most likely to be victims of tazers. Without seeing the hundred letters that commissioner melara assigned alluded to, i very seriously doubt if theyre representative of the communities that are actually going to be victimized by tazers. Its the wrong message to be sending to the community to adopt tazers right now. Itll itll put us so far back in terms of the achievements that this this department has made with respect to the credibility that this department is advancing and working toward, and and it is its its out of that sense of duty to the entire community of San Francisco that i oppose this motion. Commissioner marshall. So we both talk about the 13 years and the 13 times ive been here for all 13 years and more times, and one of the great things about being on the commission and being an individual is the perspective you have on everything, so ill begin sha begin im not going to say how i vote. You might be able to figure it out. What falls flat with me a little bit is the timing of when to have them. When the department was not progressing, it was not a good time to have them. When the department is progressing, its not a good time to have them. I would not be surprised that when the department is in very good shape, it would not be the time to have them because what ive heard is that people just dont like tazers. A lot of people there i think i heard a statement put pretty well it will never be the time to have them. So so time doesnt matter to me. The time, there is no the time. You have to decide whether youre going to have them or youre not, and this just may be somebody that runs a nonprofit and has a board like my board to support me. They support my direction and what i think is best for my organization. As a board member here, if my chief speaking is a good thing to have and his experience, i listen to that; and, you know, when i hear the community how many people in this city in 800,000 . Everybody thinks they have their slice of the community. Whoever their following is the community. Ive heard so many different voices, so many different things, i happen to think personally that this department has come so far so fast, its moving forward at lightning speed. I actually dont think its a set back. I do not at all. I have a lot of faith in this department, and one of the great things ive heard, and nice thing ive heard is i do have an example its done in a way that did not produce oakland, when you said zero, that means there is a way to do it right or right as it can be done, so you could probably figure out where im going with this, where my head is at, so those are my comments before we take the vote, and you will know what that is shortly. Are you ready . All right. Commissioner dejesus. I have to say, i think its incredibly sad in this age of trumps and black lives matters, our own officer involved five shootings of minorities and mentally ill that this commission is seriously considering voting for tazers after all these years. You know, i was hoping this commission would do the right things. Theres cameras rolled out, were having issues on the cameras, and more important, i just found out tonight, were just talking about c. I. T. Training of 10 hours. Its a shame, and i think we should give the measures that we put in place a chance. Theyve never answered the questions of of what are they trying to solve. This came up after the mario woods shooting, you know, if we had a tazer, we wouldnt have shot. Tazers who have electrocuted that man. We should look at our own o. I. S. s and training issues. We should be working on the trust with this community. This community has been seriously affected. This commission has shutdown many meetings because of the anger and the distrust and the angst, the communities, the mission community, the homeless community, the tinderloin community, and bay view community, and we set meetings in the middle of the morning or middle of the afternoon behind a Police Officers door. I think the process theres something wrong with this process. I think it was meant to keep people out. People waited six months before they had an opportunity to talk, and then, when theyre here, theyre disrespected in a manner where theyre still locked out, theyre locked outside, and they cant participate. I think its shame on this commission to even consider voting on this, and i think we should give our dgos a chance to work, our cameras a chance to work. We should force our department to really analyze our training issue. We should talk about our technology, sorely lacking. Youre going to get 8 million to get tazers, and we dont even have the technology to get the data. Were rushing to give a training to give tazers. I think the whole thing is a deflection. What we have is an analysts report that says we can look forward to 102 tasings a hear. Thats from the 0 to 126. That is tasing in communities of the under represents, the under privileged and homeless and the mentally ill, and i think thats 102 too many. And this other thing the department of justice said is we shouldnt even be reviewing our own officer involved shootings. We should not let the police make the decision whether the Police Shooting are in policy, and now, what are we going to do . Were going to turnover whether tazering is in policy by the police to do the tasing. That whole process is not transparent. There is no community representation. We get a report that says found in policy, in policy, in policy, and thats what we can look forward to. Why arent we concentrating on that dgo report . How are we ignoring not only an officer involved shootings, but not only attacked lgbt, minorities, but members within their own department . We have all that shame sitting here on that department. None of that has been taken care of, and theyre saying were going to get a weapon. That is a weapon, its not a device. I do appreciate the command staff. I think theyre working hard with these meetings that theyre having, but i dont think its changing the culture within the 2,000 Member Police department. They havent shown anything that the culture is changed. The use of force may be down, but there may be a variety of reasons why its down, but were talking about a culture that has not been a culture thats been sadly on display in the last two years, so so i think we should i think youre making a mistake tonight to support this, even if you want to wait a year. The fact that you want ten hours of training, oh, its so sad. I cant even go there. I think this commission has turned their deaf ears to the communities that are most affected by this, and weve heard it many times tonight. Who is the community in who represents the community . The community is the people who are most affected by any any adverse impact by this department, and i just think its a shame that people who took the time to come here, the people who took the time to come to all the different meetings, you know, 97 , 93 of the community doesnt want tazers, and it just falls on deaf ears. Were supposed to take into account and consider the comments of the city, and its falled on deaf ears here. I looked at this this morning, and when it came to the critics, those were the community members. We talked about deescalation will always be the policy, thats what were training right now, and why dont we have some demonstration of that before we move forward. I call for the question. Oh, im still talking, maam. I call for the question. Well, im still talking. And theres a lot of conclusionary long of over zealous over sight and things like that. I havent seen it yet, and ive been here a long time, and i just have to say, if youre going to move it on things like that, just shame on all of you. I call for the question. All right. Secretary, aspects of our use of force policy are working. We are moving in the right direction, but commissioner ong hing is correct to do this now is not the right thing to do. This is going to derail the progress we are making. This is going to tell people that we are in the middle of moving this process, moving this department in a more positive direction, that we are ready to abandon that just as things begin to get better. Use of force techniques are working. Our use of force is down, but weve heard people already misconstruing dgo 5. 10. Videos are just in place. Weve got problems with them, but theyre just in place, and their effectiveness is just becoming known to us. C. I. T. Training, yes, we have more officers doing it and by the way, commissioner dejesus is right, if were going to give officers tazers, we need to have 40 hours of training. C. I. T. Trapinining, 900 office at most. Thats not half the department. We need to keep doing things we do well and keep moving down that line. There is a cultural shift in this department slowly happening, and it can build, and it can really take force, but there are still Text Messages and horrible things that people are saying to one another. We need to build understanding in this department and with our community. And yeah, we heard from a lot of people here, and im not saying the folks here in this room or in the hallway or the people watching at home, those are the only members of the community yeah, theres 800,000 people, and were responsible to all of them, and weve heard messages and letters saying we were in favor of tazers, and you know what . Im not someone to say, never tazer, im just saying not now. Were making such good progress. Lets not turn our back on it. Ive got to tell you, out of all the people who spoke her tonight, tammy brian, who umm cans here regularly, with positive and negative things to say, she summed it up for me, im having really positive interactions with the police right now, and she complimented. We need that kind of communication. We need that kind of experience between San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department to grow. I have to tell you, i have Great Respect for the men and women who served this department. I am not saying that i dont trust you by any action my actions, im saying lets turn our actions toward something bigger and greater than another weapon. I know people say well, we need a use of force option between the tazer and the gun. Well, we havent even explored any of those. We havent talked about any of those, seriously. Weve talked about this one the three times that ive been on the commission, and here, we have issues around bias and yeah, we have issues around use of force, and no one is addressing the fact that tazers use is disproportionately against blo black and brown people. We have got to solve our issues around those kinds of incidents before we move to use a tazer. And, you know, people have also said well, if you guys dont do it ive heard this from people if you guys dont do it, then, the voters of San Francisco are going to do it on the next ballot . You know what . I believe in government by the people, of the people, for the people, so if thats what the people of San Francisco as a whole decide to do, i can respect that, and maybe seven people shouldnt be making that decision, but i can tell you one that feels strongly that if we have to be asked today, were not there yet. And im asking all of you, all of you, please dont do this yet. If you want to put a time limit on it, you want to see use of force policy in place, its not about the time, its about what is the policy doing . Come back and visit it in a year, and if the policy is working, and if things are better, and if we have a better relationship with our community, and we feel we still need these weapons, then implement this. Please, please commissioners, do not do this. Second kilshaw, call the vote call the roll. Clerk on commissioner melaras motion that the for the commission to approve the San Francisco Police Department to kwipt Police Personnel with conducted energy devices, tazers, as a use of force option, and that the department finalize the policy and bring to the commission within 30days, and on with commissioner hirschs friendly amendment, that the San Francisco Police Department shall not use electronic control weapons until department general order 5. 01 use of force has been implemented for at least two years, commissioner mazzucco how do you vote . Aye. Commissioner marshall, how do you vote . Aye. Commissioner dejesus, how do you vote . No. Commissioner melara how do you vote sfl. Aye. Commissioner ong hing, how do you vote . No. Commissioner hirsch, how do you vote . Aye. Commissionerturman, how do you vote . No. The motion passed 43. All right. So by a vote of 43, the San Francisco Police Commission has approved the use of tazers as a use of force option; however quiet it shall not be implemented until one year until two years after the use of force policy has been approved which was approved in december of 2016 therefore, it will not come into play until december of 2018. Do i have an appropriate motion . We just voted. We just voted. We just voted. Move to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Second. All in favor . This meeting is good morning, everyone. My name is todd rufto of the Workforce Development program. Its great to be here at the San Francisco museum of ice cream. I want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. This is a special day. We are doing the Fourth Annual launch of the mayors shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. This is a really big deal because it is a partnership between a great many members of the Small Business community and the neighborhood throughout the city focused on helping san franciscans spend more money in our local commercial corridors and at Small Businesses in San Francisco. But it is also an opportunity to celebrate the entrepreneurs that are making that keep San Francisco strong, that are keeping the city thriving and vie brand. One of the things that im really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in the office of economic Workforce Development launched this program to do exactly that. To encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our Small Business community. Mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in Small Businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the citys history to support Small Businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a Small Business portal, by meeting constantly with our Small Business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. It is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] thank you. Thank you, todd. Good morning, everybody. Let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. I challenged him to find me more ice cream. That was the real challenge. And im really happy to be here. At the Ice Cream Museum. This is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, theyre getting booked up like crazy and were in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of course, the chief and i already have enough chants. We need some opportunities to smile and, of course, were about to jump into this speckle pool. Forgive us if we have too much fun. The holidays are beginning. Were going to have lots of fun. I want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our Business Community and Small Businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. You have jeffries toys, my favorites. Theyre a legacy business in the city. And keep supporting them. [shouting] well have all of the different Business Associations that are working together with us. But the experience is all about fun. Safe fun. And that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have. Reduce the Harm Reduction program on our streets. Make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. While work on those hard things. In between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our Business Community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here. Thousands of kids over the holidays, families. People from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. And were doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that Everything Else is working for folks on the longterm. Small businesss are so important to cities like San Francisco. More than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the Cultural Diversity all over our neighborhoods. This is one big area. But listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. Allow them to give you cultural innovation, Small Business innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their Small Businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and culturally rich. Wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. I think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. To our restaurants, our Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be very full this year. Probably hard to get reservations. But persevere. Use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a 5 bill or something and hand somebody. Then they will give you a seat. The oldfashioned way. But i know mark is excited because Small Businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love supporting them. But i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. Go to that app. If you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. And well be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and enjoying themselves. Of course, this is thanksgiving. So, were going to, just after this, well be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. We have fire victims up north that are in need. We have people on the streets that are in need. I want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. Right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and thats why these this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them. Cover all of our Small Businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. So thank you very much, everybody. And shop and dine in 49. Happy holidays. [applause] thank you, mayor. As the mayor said, this Holiday Season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. It is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everybody. I couldnt have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. Im not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. Im sure i will be here many times during the holidays. This is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the Holiday Season, thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, it brings out the best in communities. It is a time where were selfless, we give, we come together as a community. And definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. This time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember Walking Around, basically Walking Around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. For those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really something to behold. So, we want to make sure that that experience is shared and that people can do that safely. I have a couple of tips that i want to share with you. I have a long list. But im going to be very quick in reading rattling off this list of safety tips. First of all, cell phones. We all have em. We all use them. And sometimes im as guilty of it as anybody else. Im walking and texting and on the phone and im not paying attention to what im doing. Take a minnesota Pay Attention to your surroundings. I know were a cell phone generation. We live on these things but they can be distracting. It is really important when you are shopping, particularly going to the bank and the a. T. M. , buying things for your family and loved ones, Pay Attention to your surroundings. There is nothing more important than vigilance. If we are to be a resilient city, there is some basic things that we can do. If youre using your a. T. M. , block your p. I. N. Number so it is not visible. Really basic thing. But unfortunately we still have people if our society that will make a living and make a profit off of stealing p. I. N. Numbers and then getting into your bank account and taking your funds. Block your p. I. N. Numbers. Make sure you look at your surroundings when you are at the a. T. M. No matter what you are, look at your surroundings. If you are driving to your location, number one, Public Transportation is great here. Take advantage of Public Transportation. But if you are driving, make sure you lock your car, first of all. Make sure that you put things away that are visible. If you have a trunk, put it in the trunk. Dont leave valuables if your car. We have a program were calling park smart. It has been very successful. But that means to park smart. Dont leave your valuables if your car for somebody else to take them away. The last thing you want to do have your hold day season ruined by somebody else breaking your car window and taking out the things that you work hard to provide your family and friends and loved ones. So park smart. The next thing, if you are shoppinging, make sure when you some people will shop and theyll go and load up their car and then go and shop. There are things you can do to prevent being an easy victim for that. If you are shopping, if you are going to load your car, take the time to move your car to another location. Because people that are going to prey on innocent people, they do watch what you do. So move your car around. I know it is a little bit of an inconvenience, but it does help. If youre Walking Around with packages and loaded up on the arm, again Pay Attention to your surroundings because you dont want to become easy prey. Our city overall is a very safe city. But there are things that we can do to be resilient and individual lends and some of these things may sound like common sense. When you are caught in the moment of the day sometimes you lose track of what you are doing and you get distracted. The main thing is to Pay Attention. Pay attention to what you are doing. If you do that your resiliency goes up and your vigilance goes up. The last thing is look out for your neighbors. If you see something, say something. The cell phones that i just mentioned, be safe in doing so. But if you have a situation where you need to call 311 or 911, do that. 911 is an emergency situation. Somebody is getting a, thated f you see a crime in progress, thats a 911 call. If your car gets broken into and there is no danger, that is a 311 call. Well get there and take a report. Or you can do that report online. I want to end this on a positive note. I started this with this season is all about giving, sharing and taking care of each other. I think if we do that, that is a resilient San Francisco that we all know we can be. Lets take care of each other and be a community and enjoy your Holiday Season. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, chief. As i mentioned earlier, the shop and dine the 49 campaign is a partnership with the Small Business community but also with other government leaders. It is my honor to introduce and recognize our s. B. A. District representive, fewly appointed just a couple of months ago. Come on up, julie. [applause] good morning. First of all, mayor lee and chief scott for your great support of the Small Business community. S. B. A. Is really proud to cosponsor, again, Small Business saturday with American Express and women impacting public policy. They have been tremendous supporters of this initiative across the country. And i know jason and lynn are here today and we have a representative from American Express. Thank you for your dedication and your support of the Small Business community. We have been part of this or the Small Business saturday has been around since 2010 and its really been exciting to watch this initiative grow year after year. Last year was a recordbreaking year with about 112 Million Consumers out shopping small and dining small across the country. They saw 68 increase in the neighborhood champions can. I know this year with all this momentum and excitement, maybe fueled by a little sugar from the ice cream, that we can even beat those numbers. Im looking forward to seeing everyone out and about on saturday. In your various communities. So why Small Business . I mean, we all know Small Businesses create jobs, they fuel the local economy, spark innovation. Thats all true. But Small Businesses are more than that. They are actually what makes our communities unique. It helps us define our neighborhoods. So, when you support a Small Business, you are supporting your friends and neighbors. They tend to hire from a local community. They tend to support local initiatives. Philanthropic events. So when these Small Businesses thrive, we all benefit. So, at s. B. A. , of course, were here to be your Small Business resource. So any Small Business loaners out there today, know that you have the skills and talent and ambition, but if you ever need a little bit of help, s. B. A. Is here to help you as well, where you need counseling, training, financial assistance, or youre looking for new opportunities such as exporting or government contracting. Please remember to call upon us. But the message for the takeaway today is saturday. Please go out, take your friends and neighbors and remind them it is Small Business saturday. Go shop at your Favorite Local merchants, go dine at your favourite local restaurant and if you have out of town guests, this is the perfect time to show off all those fun places that you love and adore to patronize on a daily basis. So i encourage everyone to amplify this message and encourage all of your friends and neighbors to shop small and dine small. [applause] thank you, julie. As you all know, what this ultimately is about is about the Small Businesses and were doing this to support them, to support their vitality in the city. It is an honor to be able to welcome up matthew lunn whos the owner of jefferys toys. Now jefferys toys was nominated by mayor lee as a legacy business. They have been around since 1938 in San Francisco. And that is a really long time. I know matthew is going to explain a little more action their story. But i want to welcome you up there to tell that story for all of us. [applause] thank you. First up i want to say that my dad and my step mom are the owners of jefferys toys. Im here as one of the supporters of jefferys toys. You know, when i was born, it was not it was pretty unusual that my parents owned the most familyrun toy stores in the bay area. Find that as a normal way to grow up as a kid. Prison awesome when it is your birthday or a holiday, right . But my parents didnt start the toy stores, jeffery toys. My grandparents operated it before them and then my great grand parents are really the ones that started the toy stores. Wow. What a great way to grow up. All that creativety and play and uniqueness made me want to continue to live a life where i could play and be creative. And i ended up working at pixar at the very beginning when the studio began. On toy story. No coincidence, right . [applause] [laughter] and you Better Believe when we needed to give reference on what toys would be in that film, you know the toy store we went to, we went to jefferys toys toy story one, two, and three. I spends over half my life at pixar, which has been awesome. When i hear that the toy store was being closed down on market street, it broke my heart. I was like this cannot be possible in a city that is all about creativity and play and uniqueness. We cant lose jefferys toys. That is when i came in and said to my dad and stepmom, there is no way were letting this happen. And then with the support of the city, support of the mayor and the legacy program, we were able to just open up our toy store once again in the city, just a couple of months ago. So, we think we think we can still safely say weve been here since 1966. But, you know, in a world of amazon and walmart and all this, people still want an experience. People still want to come in and be able to touch the toys, be able to touch the productses, to be able to have an experience. The same kind of experience you get when you see a film. Right . People still want that. And in the city that is the most, in my opinion, the most creative, unique city in the world, we gotta have a toy store. We gotta have shopping and dining experiences that are one of a kind. So were so happy to be part of this shop and dine in the 49 and, once again, since 1966, creating a fun place, a creative place for people to come and buy their toys. So, thank you. [applause] in closing, i think matthew hit on a good point which isnt just about shopping or dining, this is about experiencing in the 49. I obviously believe there is no better place to spend the holidays, but also year round than here in San Francisco. And on that note, on the note of experience, i think with the closing of this event, i think you are going to take us on a tour of the Ice Cream Museum here and maybe the chief and everybody here can join the mayor and maybe we go and check out the sprinkle pole just down the way [laughter] and see everything that the Ice Cream Museum has to offer. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you to all of our partners for your support. Have a wonderful and safe Holiday Season. Thank you. [applause] this is maybe our 10th year hosting an annual turkey giveaway. But it has been so wonderful to partner with the pay yours office and the rest of the city departments to really expand our capacity across the city. Once upon a time, we were only able to serve maybe 500 to 600 families and now were talking about 3,000 across the city. [cheering] a lot of people need our help. So well help them. And were positive about that. And we have all of these great volunteers from Mission Housing and i want to say thank you to them and the housinging authority for their staff today. All coming out and giving that personal touch to redents of valencia gardens. Look, it is happening on every one of our sites that have Public Housing residents throughout the next 24, 48 hours. So, thises all about us giving back to the people that we care about and helping folks have both a safe and enjoyable holiday. Howd we do . Im so excited. This is the fun part of the job where i can help people have a great thanksgiving. It is so wonderful from foster farms and the city family is all here today to share. Because were all in this together. Were a city where we all care about each other. No matter where we come from, oer what we have. Were all here for each other, to take care of each other. Thank you come on over. Were all partnered together to give back. Thank you again. Were very much grateful to be part of this. Happy thanksgiving. Have a happy thanksgiving, meal time. But most of all, lets give to each other the humidity that we all want and deserve. I just want to remind everyone about compassion and care as we roll into these holidays. Were really doing this for families. And we want to build Strong Families across the city. This is one of many events that we continue to do and we look forward to our toy giveaway and tree giveaway as well. Thank you. [applause] this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. In the old days myelogram ma get together i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. When i was younger i know it did something to my body. Ive been Drinking Coffee since i was 17 really the only thing im good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. I like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. The coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. In the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops were searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. When i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and Everything Else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. One thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so thats my pleasure. Each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i cant buy. People love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. Fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the Community Aspect i really enjoyed. I think its important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. Your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities i love my city San Francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in San Francisco its a small city 7 by 7 but its huge. I really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission ive lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and San Francisco. Or portland and San Francisco but San Francisco is definitely on the cuttingedge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. Theres so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. I know for a fact i was born to make coffee. I have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and lets have a cup of coffee and talk about it. Please, join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] ms. Secretary please call roll call yes. Thank you. Roll call president trent scott present, lim here, breslin here, ferrigno, follansbee here, sass expected sheehy we have a quorum. Thank you will take up action item 1. Item one action item approval of the possible modifications of the minutes of the meeting set forth below. Regular meeting of august 10, 2017